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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief Rhinelander attorney is Isaac Newton Mills. He was born in Connecticut in 1851; in school he was known as a wrangler; at Amherst he had a reputation for vigor, for honesty, for plain speech. Admitted to the bar in 1876, he began to practice law in Mount Vernon and Manhattan. For six years he was an appellate justice...
...Jonathan Trumbull who is thus honored was born in Lebanon, Conn., October 12, 1710, of stock that had been American since 1639. After an education undertaken at home and by the local pastor, he was prepared at the age of 13 for Harvard College, where he was ranked, according to the custom of the time, twenty-eight in the order of the prominence of his family among the 37 members of the class of 1727. It is interesting to observe that the young Trumbull gained social distinction so rapidly that in 1756 his son Joseph ranked second at Harvard...
...Like an old figure from another time Boston stands as a link between the progressive present and the stalwart past. In truth, she has few contemporaries in tradition, she stands alone, and not ignobly. As a writer in the "New Republic" states, she "was not made, but was born. And almost to the purple...
...town of Rhenish Bavaria one Sara bore to one Lazarus Straus three sons. The first-born he named Isidore; the second he named Nathan; the youngest, Oscar Solomen. Isidore, after distinguished years as merchant, banker and Congressman, lost his life, a hero, in the Titanic disaster. Nathan is now 77 and Oscar Solomon is 75, and for more than a generation their portraits have appeared in the public prints of the U. S. as frequently as that of Santa Claus. Nathan is the passionate philanthropist. No sooner does he make a nickel (Abraham & Straus, R. H. Macy, emporia) than...
...named* weekdays, there was but one ambiguity: Nathan or Oscar Solomon? It was neither, it was Simon William (S. W. Straus & Co., "no loss to any investor for 43 years") and his day was the biggest: $1,020,193. He sprang, like the famed Gimbels, from Indiana, having been born in Ligonier just after the Civil War. Soon thereafter his father established in Chicago one of the greatest bond businesses in history. Now a gilded doorway struts into uptown Fifth Avenue, proclaiming the sweep of the Straus enterprises. It is in Manhattan that Simon William functions as President...